Internships: viewing all internships from Uganda

Maggie Crosby, Maternal & Child Health Program During her summer internship Maggie worked at Pader Girls’ Academy (PGA), a unique boarding school in northern Uganda. PGA students are primarily adolescent mothers. It is the only school in Uganda where teen mothers can continue their studies and keep their children with them at school. Maggie worked to create a sexual and…

Amanda carried out key informant interviews in Ethiopia and Uganda to identify current family planning priorities, reproductive health policies, and feasibility of community-based distribution of contraceptives.

Carrine worked with Marie Stopes International to assess providers’ opinions of a reproductive health voucher program in Uganda. These voucher programs are designed to give patients the economic power to demand high-quality healthcare, to target high-risk or low-income patients for critical services, to augment general population utilization rates, and to contain per-unit costs.

Matt went Uganda in Summer 2008 to produce a cost effectiveness evaluation of the Output-Based Aid (OBA) HealthyLife pilot program for non-HIV STIs, and to assist in the planning an randomized evaluation of the forthcoming OBA HealthyBaby safe maternal delivery program.